Luiz Henrique de Figueiredo
has a B.Sc. (1982) and an M.Sc. (1984) in
Mathematics
from
PUC-Rio,
the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro,
and a D.Sc. (1992) in Mathematics
from
IMPA.
He is a Full Researcher at
IMPA
and a member of the
Visgraf laboratory.
He was a
member
of
Tecgraf,
the Computer Graphics Technology Group of
PUC-Rio,
for over 20 years.
He has collaborated with
Visgraf
and
Tecgraf
since their creation.
Before joining
IMPA
in 2001,
he was an Associate Researcher at
LNCC,
which
he joined in 1997,
after spending one year there as a visiting researcher
supported by a
FAPERJ
fellowship.
Before that,
he was a post-doctoral fellow in the
Computer Systems Group
of the
Computer Science Department
at the
University of Waterloo
in 1995.
He was invited plenary speaker at
SCAN 2002
and at
SIBGRAPI 2017.
Research interests
His
current research interests
include
computational mathematics,
geometric modeling,
and
interval methods in computer graphics,
specially
applications of
affine arithmetic.
He is also interested in programming languages
and is one of the
designers
of the
Lua
language.
Lua was awarded the first prize in the
II Compaq Award for
Research and Development in Computer Science,
in 1997,
and the
Front Line Award 2011
from the
Game Developers Magazine.
Lua featured in
HOPL III,
the Third ACM SIGPLAN History of Programming Languages Conference,
in 2007.
Lua featured in the
"Inovanças – Creations Brazilian style"
exhibition at
the
Museum of Tomorrow in Rio, in 2017.
Watch the
video.
Service
- Member of the editorial board of
Computers & Graphics.
-
Member of the editorial board of the
Journal of Universal Computer Science.
-
Member of the editorial board of
Nonlinear Theory and Its Applications.
-
SIBGRAPI, Brazilian Symposium on Computer Graphics and Image Processing:
chair of the program committee for
SIBGRAPI'97;
member of the program committee for
SIBGRAPI'98,
SIBGRAPI'99,
SIBGRAPI 2002,
SIBGRAPI 2005,
SIBGRAPI 2007,
SIBGRAPI 2008,
SIBGRAPI 2009,
SIBGRAPI 2010,
SIBGRAPI 2011,
SIBGRAPI 2012,
SIBGRAPI 2013,
SIBGRAPI 2014,
SIBGRAPI 2015,
SIBGRAPI 2016,
SIBGRAPI 2017,
SIBGRAPI 2018,
SIBGRAPI 2019;
co-chair of
tutorials
for
SIBGRAPI 2001;
chair of
posters
for
SIBGRAPI 2003.
-
GeoInfo, Brazilian Workshop on GeoInformatics:
co-chair of the program committee for
GeoInfo 2000;
member of the program committee for
GeoInfo 2001
and
GeoInfo 2002.
-
GCR,
Geometric Constraints and Reasoning
track of the Annual ACM Symposium on Applied Computing:
member of the program committee for
GCR 2008,
GCR 2009,
GCR 2010,
GCR 2011,
GCR 2012.
-
GRAPP, International Conference on Computer Graphics Theory and Applications:
member of the program committee for
GRAPP 2007,
GRAPP 2008,
GRAPP 2009,
GRAPP 2010,
GRAPP 2011,
GRAPP 2012,
GRAPP 2013,
GRAPP 2014,
GRAPP 2015,
GRAPP 2016,
GRAPP 2017,
GRAPP 2018,
GRAPP 2019,
GRAPP 2020.
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Member of the program committee for
Eurographics 2012 Short Papers,
Eurographics 2016 Short Papers,
Eurographics 2017 Short Papers,
Eurographics 2018 Short Papers,
Eurographics 2019 Short Papers.
-
Member of the program committee for
WoCG 2013.